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BLARNEY PILGRIM
Celtic Fingerstyle Guitar
Volume 2
This is a collection of traditional music from Ireland and Scotland arranged for solo guitar. The artist featured have passionately studied Celtic music and made their own adaptations of it.
Artists include : Pat Kirtley, Martin Simpson, Steve Baughman, Duck Baker, Pierre Bensusan, Tom Long, and El McMeen.
The 4 basic categories of music in this collection are: dance music, songs (ballads and airs), martial music, and the unique music of the blind Irish harper, Turlough O'Carolan.
There is an accompanying booklet that has all the arrangements written in standard notation and tablatures. All tunes were composed in alternate tunings. The booklet also includes a historical essay on the evolution of the Irish solo guitar style by Pat Kirtley as well as a biographical sketch of each contributing artist. 59 minutes, DVD.
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